"These products that were obtained by Mazang." Zhang Ziming looked at the Russians and smiled at Wang Datong, Ma Chaowen and others, "This time it's really an eye-opener."

"We are the eyes open." Ma Chaowen smiled at Zhang Ziming and said, "Brother Zhang had always lived on the grassland before. I heard that the Mongolians were almost drunk."

"It's still a lot worse." Zhang Ziming explained: "Mongols are usually controlled by Taiji people, and the elderly are at ease with their words. If any young and strong person dares to drink like this, they will be stuffed with horse manure at night and tied up to wait for him to sober up. It's impossible for him to make a fuss on the street like this."

"The customs of the Russians are really amazing." Li Dayong, Jiang Dalin and others looked at each other and smiled.

This group of great Ming merchants were also in a restaurant. According to the customs of the Chinese people, they set up a table to wait for the table. Everyone slowly drank and ate vegetables. When the banquet was about to end, they started to drink tea and talk about the main things.

These businessmen have considerable status. Zhang Ziming and Fu Qingming represent the prairie Han merchants, Wang Datong and Ma Chaowen are representatives of the han merchants in Zhangjiakou. Although Li Dayong and Jiang Dalin are Datong merchants, they are now fully representing the interests of Heji. Their own business has been repurchased and converted into shares by the company. Every profit of Heji is related to them. They joined the newly established Foreign Trade Department and became one of the directors of the department, specifically responsible for dealing with merchants.

Compared with merchants everywhere, the official color of the military officials is too strong. They have many plans and real ideas and dare not tell them. For Ma Chaoren, Jiang Dalin, Li Dayong and others, although they are standard Hutchison directors and shareholders, their official color is much weaker and they still retain their true nature as a businessman. This is different from the real military officials and makes Wang Datong and others willing to deal with these people.

As for Zhang Ziming and others, they are between the two and are also one of the forces.

"The Lord asked the Han merchants in Qingcheng to start the winemaking industry, which is really a masterpiece." Wang Datong exclaimed: "I know why the Lord has done such a big career now. Everything is ahead of us and is too accurate in seeing things. Even if he doesn't do a good job and only does business, he will definitely be much greater than our achievements."

"Actually, Lord Zhang was a pure businessman at the beginning." Ma Chaoren smiled and said, "Waterji had no special features when he was in Xinpingbao. The capital of 30,000 taels was saved by two generations. Later, Lord Zhang started the mule and horse business, which was a stroke of magic, but then it was the beginning of the transformation. It was impossible to do a foot trip, but it was not enough to fight. The so-called car and ship shop should be killed without guilt. There are really no good people. Most of the foot trips are rogues, and car trips are rogues, mule and horse business trips are rogues, and car trips are rude and mule and horse business trips are rude.

Almost all, Lord Zhang made several important routes with a ruthless force. His car was well built and managed by people. Gradually, more and more people were using his carriages and horses, and there were profits. Then he developed Lingqiu iron ore and made iron tools, which brought his business to a big step. Because of the benefits of mules and horses and his subordinates who could fight, he could do smuggling transactions with the Beilu, making more money, and then he joined the Donglu. The heavy profits he obtained were really hard for us to imagine."

Wang Datong answered: "Our great merchants in Zhangjiakou, the eight famous masters and the Fan family, did not fail to fight with Lord Zhang, but unfortunately they were defeated. In addition to fighting, no merchants in the north were Hutchison's opponents. We could only cooperate with Hutchison sincerely, otherwise we would have been squeezed out and had no business to do."

"Mr. Zhang's mind is admirable." Fu Qingming smiled and said, "In fact, if Hutchison kept squeezing, it would be difficult for us to have businessmen in our mouths, but that would also cause a rebound. In this way, everyone will cooperate, just like the establishment of a chamber of commerce in Tianchengwei and other places, it is really another stroke of magic."

"So some people's talent is given by God." Wang Datong raised his wine glass and smiled: "Tonight we have explained the main directions of each company. Even if there are small conflicts, we can negotiate to resolve them. We are mainly engaged in groceries and porcelain, while Ma Dongzhu and others mainly use silk, while Hutchison is iron, cloth, cotton, grain, and miscellaneous grains. Qingcheng Han merchants mainly use sweet potatoes to make wine and tobacco. Our large-capital merchants do not compete with each other, and Hutchison also gives us space. This is really a joy."

Several merchants from Zhangjiakou looked at each other and saw that they had affirmed each other, Wang Datong continued: "But recently, Hutchison not only needs to guard against Lin Dankhan, but also have to deal with the Ketu Khan's troops. The troops are scattered for thousands of miles, which is worrying. Our idea is that Hutchison should recruit some more troops. Our Zhangjiakou merchants are willing to raise hundreds of thousands more, and at least, there are thousands more troops stationed in the trading city to train troops with Hutchison's ability. We think that even the new army can be of great use."

Several directors of Hutchison also looked at each other, and the few Qingcheng did not speak out, but the expressions on their faces were obviously in agreement with the opinions of the Chinese merchants in their mouths.

The situation of buying and selling cities is indeed worrying. The military commander is mobilizing troops, but that means that there are fewer troops stationed in the business roads of more than a thousand miles, which is just as dangerous. After all, there are more dangerous hungry wolves in the east. Lin Danhan's power is much stronger than Ketuhan. At least this is the impression that everyone has always given.

But Tu Khan's troops also have tens of thousands of dents, but they are indeed much weaker than Lin Dankhan. The merchants are not worried that the merchant army will be defeated. Compared with the Mongolians who feel good and the Russians who want to watch the fun, these Han merchants still have a good understanding of the strength of their own army.

But what they worry about is not defeat, but time.

A large number of troops may be trapped in the war against the Quetu team, which will cause instability in the entire business road.

For businessmen, taking risks means opportunities, but long-term instability means psychological insecurity. This insecurity may lead to the inability to achieve many business opportunities. From the source of goods, funds, personnel allocation, insecurity means that these things are not safe. Some people are willing to take risks, but most people don’t like them. If these big businessmen with a net worth of hundreds of thousands or millions want to make their careers bigger again in Mobei, they have to do a lot of things, and a sense of security is undoubtedly the first thing.

If it weren't for cooperation with Hutchison, and the current situation had changed, these merchants would not dare to raise money to recruit soldiers. Everything was changing. Merchants not only had their own interests, but could also speak out and exchange for interests, political, and of course military. At least they knew that at the beginning of Hutchison's establishment, the chamber of commerce was established, and then the merchant groups were built everywhere in the name of the escort of the merchant regiment, which was the predecessor of the famous merchant regiment army. At the beginning of its establishment, no one thought that this guard specializing in protecting merchant property could grow into what it is today.

"You also need to ask the Hun Ji to not misunderstand." Seeing that everyone was silent, Wang Datong quickly explained: "We are just raising funds in Zhangjiakou. After this trip, I believe that a large number of business owners are thinking about coming to see the opportunity. If the business road is not safe, everyone will hesitate. Therefore, there will be many people who invest. We only focus on raising funds and paying bank money. We will not ask about anything else, and we dare not ask about it."

"Mr. Zhang won't be so careless." Li Dayong joked: "No matter how stupid we are, we won't think about reaching our hands into the army. That's really stupid."

A few years ago, when Hutchison was still in its infancy, the escorts of chambers of commerce in various places were firmly controlled by Zhang Han alone. There may be a few who were ignorant of their own and wanted to put their hands in. They may not think about anything. Many people may just want to be more prestigious, but the price is missing.

In those years, Zhang Han's authority had not yet covered all corners. Many people didn't know that fire was hot, and when they stretched out their hands, the price was very heavy.

There were many people missing in those years, not only those who wanted to reach out to the guards, but also those who were corrupt and cheating, colluding with outsiders to take kickbacks or sell and record secrets in exchange for benefits. There were often headless corpses drifting in the river outside Xinpingbao. Yang Qiu's reputation was not just obtained with a gloomy face. There was no military situation at that time. Of course, all these things were done by Yang Qiu and his people. These things have been a long time ago, and Zhang Han has always been very good to the people and suppressed Confucian scholars.

, but it was not enough to be accepted by them. The victimized class was only the merchants who fought against Hutchison at that time. It was harmless to offend such a class. Officials, Confucian scholars, clans, and other stronger classes did not come forward, nor would it cause an emotional rebound. It was not until Zhang Han fought against Han Qi, the governor, and all the officials and gentry members of the Datong area discovered that Hutchison had expanded and grown into a giant, and no one had any opponents to it.

The merchants in Zhangjiakou may have unclear concepts before the failure of the Eight Shanxi merchants, but at this time, half of the southern mourning grasslands became the treasure of He Yusheng. Mobei also expressed surrender. Zhang Han controlled the land as big as a dozen Shanxi governors, and his subordinates had more than 100,000 soldiers alone. If these merchants still couldn't figure out the strength of their power, they would be too stupid.

In the process of digging deep into Zhang Han's past, many things were more or less known by Wang Datong and others. They became more awe and became more cautious. Therefore, Wang Datong's statement was by no means a mistake, but a profound lesson that often taught these merchants in the past.

"I hope I can win earlier." Zhang Ziming breathed a sigh of relief, stood by the window and looked in the direction west, unwilling to look away for a long time.

Everyone knew that his son was also in the army of the Western Expedition. Although he was a rear guard, the range of cavalry war activities was extremely large. Strictly speaking, there was no real rear area, so it was inevitable for Zhang Ziming to worry. (.)
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